Why Kill Americans?

For more than seven years, the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest places, The Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its people and turning its bases in the peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring muslim peoples.

The best proof of this is the Americans continuing aggression against the Iraqi people, using the Peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers are against their terrorists being used to that land, but they are helpless. These crimes are sins committed by the Americans of a clear declaration of war on God, his messenger and muslims. And Ulema (Muslim Scholars) have throughout Islamic history unanimousl agreed that the jihod (Holy War) is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries. On that basis, and in compliance with the God's order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims. The ruling is to kill the Americans and their allies is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it, in order to liberate the Al Aqsa mosque (Jerusalim) and the Holy Mosque (Mecca). This is an accordance with the words of Almighty God.

 

America After September 11th.

Ever since September 11, Americans have been constantly lectured by the government and prowar media about how everything has changed since the attacks on the World Trade Center (W.T.C.) and the Pentagon. To the people who have been directly affected by the attacks, the changes have been concrete: loss of life and limb, loss of family, loss of property and loss of work. To the rest of America, who has not affected directly, the changes since September 11 have been an awful lot more abstract. For many Americans, "Everything has changed" about what they buy, with the people running out and buying gas masks, antibiotics, guns, new home security systems, or anything else that they think might protect them against attacks by demented foreingers who have targeted them personally for sacrafice in the name of evil. For other Americans things have changed in their recreational habits, because they no longer feel safe taking walks after dark, watching romantic comediest, or even celebrating Halloween. For other Americans, "Everything has cahnged" because of the feeling that terrorist attacks could come at any place, at anytime, even at the Citgo gas station outside Praire View, Wisconsin at 2:45 in the morning. For American politicians, things have changed in that the practice of healthy, democratic debate about domestic and international affairs has given way to the obligation to stand behind the president, giving him the pwer to do whatever he wants, without question. For the wealthy citizens and corporations who write big checks to politicians, things have also changed since September 11th, in that they can expect bigger tax breaks and subsidies in the name of patriotic unity.

For American news organizations, "Everything has changed" about the way they interpret journalistic ethics: no longer does journalism attempt to provide objective information gathered independently from governmental supervision. Since 9-11-01 Journalists deliver government produced misinformation and propoganda directly to the public without even attempting to corroborate skeptically examine its content. Reporters now lecture each other and their audiences that it is the duty of all members of the press to be loyal supporters of the government first and professional journalists second.

For people who are accused of crimes, now that president Bush has proclaimed that the police and prosecutors can listen in on conversations between defendants and their lawyers and that the right of suspects to be given a trial by jury may be suspended at will. Also, everything has changed for America political dissidents now that the police have been given permission to open the mail, scan the email, tap the phones and buy the homes of people suspected of having dangerously radical ideas, with practically no judicial review, in order to boister "homeland security." For religious and ethnic minorities in the United States, everything has changed in that they have become subject to violent attacks from people who suspect them of being terrorists and are being interviewed by homeland security officiers merely on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, age and gender.

Not everything though has changed. For the most part Americans still live as prosperous, peaceful and free people.